The typical reaction I receive when I answer the oh-so-common “what are you doing this summer” question: Wide eyes, shock, skepticism, and intrigue. “You’re working in a jail? As an intern? Providing sexual health education? Woah….” The response deems the work itself as it truly is – otherworldly.
At this point, we're used to seeing various Real Housewives in financial peril, but the 39-count indictment of federal fraud and tax charges that Teresa and Joe Giudice are facing is some next-level courtroom drama shit. According to legal experts, they will both serve time in a federal prison.
Just in case you were confused about whether or not we're currently living in a dystopian future horror fest, the Center for Investigative Reporting has recently found that some doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates without…
Considering that the United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world, at 754 per 100,000 (as of 2009) (Jesus), this is probably a much-needed resource.
Here's the trailer for Netflix's first female-led series, Orange Is The New Black. It was created by Jenji Kohan, (who created and won Emmys for Weeds) and is based on a memoir by Piper Kerman.
Today, the ACLU announced that it is filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, a private prison in Meridian, Mississippi. The suit alleges that EMCF is "hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous." One example of the jail's dangers: this handwritten letter from…
Jailed political activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who has been sentenced two years at a labor camp for hooliganism charges after her arrest in March last year, has entered a plea for an early release after multiple instances of health complications caused by hours upon hours of forced labor. Tolokonnikova complained…
People try to sneak lots of miscellaneous contraband into prison, but how often do they try to sneak things that aren't people out of prison? Almost never, probably because the whole point of prison is that it doesn't have anything that anyone wants, except, in the case of Israeli prisons holding Palestinian…
Even though Lindsay Lohan seems poised
for a miraculous career resurgence
to hang onto cultural relevance with all the viciousness of a ravenous capuchin, the oracles at TMZ think it's quite possible that she could be going back to jail. But how, you ask? Everything was...okay, it wasn't going well, exactly, but it…
Earlier this week, Fiona Apple followed in the footsteps of Armie Hammer by getting arrested in Texas for marijuana possession, and everyone wondered why Texas was so obsessed with ruining everyone's good time. And the arts. At the very least, this latest celebrity brush with Texas lawmen has given us a Fiona Apple…
Diane Tran, a 17-year-old junior at Willis High School in Willis, Texas, is hardly an underachiever, but the unfortunate example being made by the state's truancy violation policies. Tran, whose parents divorced unexpectedly and left town, is supporting two siblings (although reports are that one of them is an older…
Good news: the justice system in Sacramento has finally done something good for the teenaged rape victim who was being held in a juvenile detention facility to ensure she would be in court to testify against her alleged attacker. You may remember that she was held after she failed to show up to two previous court…
In August Teresa Culpepper called the Atlanta police because her truck had been stolen, but they wound up arresting her for an aggravated assault allegedly committed by another woman named Teresa. Culpepper spent nearly two months in jail until the other Teresa came to court to explain the mix up. Now police say…
Nebraska inmates who volunteered at an animal shelter were recently allowed to adopt two cats, Sarge and Nemo. The cats live in the minimum security areas of the prison, and the staff says it's a win-win situation: The cats get a home and they bring out the inmates' softer side. Why cause trouble when you could be…
Those prisons who fail to abide by the edict could face jail time.
A strip-searches by a prison guards has been ruled unconstitutional after an inmate awaiting trial described his search at the hands of a female guard as "a humiliating event."
The Project Runway All-Star Challenge did not include one of the most infamous characters to appear on the show: Kenley Collins. In an interview with The Daily Beast, the arrested-for-cat-hurling designer declares: "Jail inspired me!"
